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Summary   Today I discovered 'Iron Felix' - monument to  Felix Dzerzhinsky -- and the location of FSB: #Russia Communists staged a flash mob on Thu 2 return statue of founder Soviet secret police - "Iron Felix" - to Lubyanka Square, o/side FSB [GP] as well as the KGB HQ in Minsk, Belarus: Looks rather forbidding.  Can imagine the terror of being hauled off to the bowels of the building. The Estonian that's been arrested for spying in Russia has lawyered up: Pussy Riot lawyer -- Mark Feygin -- defending Estonian spy arrested in #Russia -- http://goo.gl/zkktC6  The EU is demanding his release.   Yahoo fought off the NSA: #NSA - threat 2 fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if no release info>Yahoo fought @ won>papers unsealed http://goo.gl/OFzV6H  #PRISM prog #Snowden Germany's suppressing Islamic State: #Germany bans Islamic State symbols, propaganda >>http://goo.gl/4Vdk15  As for Islamic State: Arab coalition against #ISIS>> SaudiArabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar & UAE, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & Lebanon - rappler/com  RT "John Kerry arrives in Ankara for talks aimed at building a coalition against Islamic State jihadists" - AFP RT >>> Petraeus: Don't overestimate ISIS in Iraq [NBC] .... wow, does that say OVERestimate? What's going on in US? So who do you believe? EU #EU - Hey, it's High Rep hottie Frederica Mogherini .... and Yasser Arafat   #EU pulled swifty Günther Oettinger, Eu Comm for Digital Economy .. but he's a DIGITAL DUMMY ... http://goo.gl/uQPhPp  - What's going on? #Germany @ odds w/ Juncker re Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership? http://goo.gl/iaFZfB  - therefore Oettinger shunted 2 digital "Bildt slams Juncker over absence of enlargement portfolio" [euractiv/com] ... Of course, he does #Iceland - changed its plans and no longer seeks to join the Union. [euractiv/com] ... Wow, how did that happen? Eurozone finance ministers gather Fri & Sat - since ECB stimulus, 3 -pillared strategy plan - http://goo.gl/pQmj6N  - bank 1st pillar only -- other two rest on government actions. NZ  "Dotcom's other concern is the participation of the country in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed regional trade agreement." "The TPP is only the latest attempt by the intellectual property industry in America to criminalize legitimate business activities such as file sharing, to destroy privacy and free speech, and to extend the American legal empire to the Pacific." the Internet Party founder wrote." "Dotcom also accused the New Zealand government under the leadership of Prime Minister John Key of surveillance powers abuse and leaking confidential information to politically aligned publishers." Source: http://goo.gl/dFs21a Israel #USA NGO funded by Sears Roebuck heiress: 'Will The New European Commission Be Less Biased Against Israel?' - http://goo.gl/ZGnGYN  #German Social-Democrat Martin Schulz as speaker #EU parliament .. upset Israeli Knesset re #Palestine water restrictions [gatestoneinst] #Netherlands went from pro Israel aft. Rosenthal replaced as for/min by Frans Timmermans ..pro-Palestinian Social-Democrat - gatestoneinst #czechrepublic , #Bulgaria & #Romania tend to be pro-Israel. - [gatestoneinst] Jean Asselborn, #Luxemburg minister of Foreign Affairs allegedly pro-Palestinian sentiments (a Juncker man) ... gatestoneinst   Nth Eu countries ... extremely critical of Israel .. most vociferous is #Ireland. .. background of IRA & PLO might explain ..Uri Rosenthal #POLAND - Jerusalem is pleased with appointment of Polish PM Donald Tusk as new president of the European Council" [GatestoneInst] ...LOL    Sweden #Sweden "unemployment among people aged 15 to 24 has been oscillating between 20 and 25 percent over the past years" thelocal.se #Sweden - election Sunday - "Reinfeldt, reflecting on the tax cuts that have defined his eight-year rule" http://goo.gl/6LVP7q  "Many Swedes say they no longer recognize the country once considered the quintessential welfare state — an (cont) http://tl.gd/n_1s9omn7  Novorossiya Ukraine's Yatsy is also known as 'the Rabbit'.   __________ oOo  _________   The above is just some random stuff that caught my attention during my travels. Easier to post a tweet than to try to recall. Assange: Check out the frothing at the mouth about 'high tech terrorism' & calls to 'shoot the son of a bitch' >> It's creepy how the government labels anyone it disagrees with as a 'terrorist'.   It's a way of isolating targets, I think.  Let's face it, not many people are going to be supportive of someone deemed 'terrorist'. Anyway, that's some of my travels today.